[194805] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Russian diplomats lingering near fiber optic cables
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben McGinnes)
Thu Jun 1 22:43:04 2017
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Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2017 12:42:55 +1000
From: Ben McGinnes <ben@adversary.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 07:15:12PM -0700, Joe Hamelin wrote:
>
> The Seattle Russian Embassy is in the Westin Building just 4 floors
> above the fiber meet-me-room and five floors above the NRO tap room.
> They use to come ask us (an ISP) for IT help back in '96 when they
> would drag an icon too far off the screen in Windows 3.11. We were
> on the same floor.
So when Flynn & Friends in the Trump Transition Team were trying to
establish that back channel link to Vladimir Putin they should've just
wandered into the nearest colo facility ... okay, then. I guess they
did it the other way because they wanted the trench coats.
Regards,
Ben
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